At the risk of beating a dead horse (sorry PETA), I feel compelled to tell you that Flagstaff, Arizona has recorded just shy of 58 inches of snow this month.
That's only 23 days into the New Year and it's already the fourth most snow ever recorded in a January and third place is within reach.
I was provoked by opening the blinds this morning and discovering that there was a fresh dusting, and it was only a dusting, of snow on the ground around my home.
Now we don't get anywhere near the snowfall that Flagstaff does because the elevation here is right around 5,000 feet and Flagstaff is almost 2,000 feet higher.
It is considered a mountain town but it's only about 140 miles north of Phoenix, which is considered to be in the desert.
And Phoenix is where one finds the cactus and the extremely high temperatures of summer through several months of the year.
Now I live in Prescott Valley about halfway between the two cities, even though our elevation is closer to Flagstaff than it is to Phoenix.
So we get views like this from the edge of town.